The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-27
JACKSONVILLE.
GOSSIP ABOUT The new PAPER.
Various Rumors sfoat as TO the Promoters and
Their Plans Will the Morning
News be Enlarged

I ol the utSha tO-'ltN. NllpttHu anu Tell lilIt
| the river. He was sucked under the boat
and drowned. The body was recovered
The State Grand Lodge. independent
| Order of Good TemplarS. met in annual
session here to-day. Seven lodges were
| represented. as follows Milton. Black
water. Selman, st. Augustine. jackson,
| vile. Dunn's Creek. Verona The Grand
officers present We're. III. /. Hemphill
Grand Chief,remplar: Rev. Dr.M. Waldo
Past Grand Chief Templar: W. r.
Shields. Grand Vice Templar: r. r.
Peasants. Grand Scribe: w. T. Hender-
son. Grand Marshal: w. c. O'NeaI.
Grand Chaplain: w. F. Hawley. Grand
Sentinel.
The annual reports showed the order
u be in a most fiourishing condition.
Six new lodges have been organized
within the last six months. The session
will he continued tomorrow.
Yesterday morning the body of "A fairly
well dressed, light complexioned, sandy
haired white man. apparently about
thirty years of age. was fished out of
TIogan's Creek. in the eastern division of
the city. The body had the appearance
of having been in the water only few
days. Blood was Yet oozing from the
mouth and from a wound i'm the
left temple. 4 rIlmor soon spread that
the man had been murdered. \ coron-
er's jury was summoned by Justice
jackson and, under the guidance of DR.
\. w. Knight, acting Health Officer.
made thorough examination of the
body. The theory of murder was soon
exploded when it was discovered that
the deceased still had upon his person
SIS. ~ i'm cash. a gold-plated watch and
several other articles Of minor value.
From papers in his packets it was dis
closed that he was Johannes Wollschle-
ger. native of Seelen. Prussia, "A baker
by trade. and had probably been in the
United States since 1881. Letters were
also found from one Paul Wollschleger,
of Philadelphia. an uncle. which spoke
of Johannes owning shares i'm a building
and loan association of that city. In
view of the above facts. the jury re-
turned "A verdict of accidental drown
ing. The deceased was an entire stran-
ger i'm this city. Word was wired To his
uncle i'm Philadelphia. asking what dis
position should he made of the body.
THE NEW NEWSPAPER.
Various rumors are rife here as To the
plans and intentions of the new news
paper syndicate. Those known to be in
terested i'm the new enterprise
are a reticient as the proverb-
ial clam. 50 ii is difficult To get at the
true inwardness' of the undertaking.
The best authenticated story is To the
effect that the new stock company have
actually purchased or are going To pur-
the plant of the Morning Nelrs and
backed by one hundred thousand dollars
of subscribed stock, thirty five thousand
dollars of which is actually said tn he
paid i'm. will soon set to work to make a
red hot \ No. l, first class morning daily.
that will enter the journalistic arena and
successfully cope with its pretentious
and arrogant contemporary, the Times
Union and all other rivals.
They say they have money, plenty Of
money, and if necessary are prepared to
sink good big pile of filthy lucre for
a number of years, until the plutocratic
high strung young banting shall be able
To crow aloud and pluck the tail feathers
from any presumptious rival that may
dare to remain i'm the coveted barn-yard.
Certain it Is that the gentlemen, said to
have the enterprise in hand, are men of
prominence. influence and wealth and
would ::hardly undertake such an expen-
sive experiment for fun. Among the
names of those mentioned as Interested
are Messrs. James p. Taliaferro. ID.
G. Amber. John y. c. Stockton
Thomas 7. Stockton. J. NJ. Barris. Flem-
ing * Daniel, Capt. James Fitzgerald,
Capt. J. T. Bentley and others. Mr..
Thomas T. Stockton is To he business
This is only one of many floating Tu
mors. Another is that the new paper
will be new from the beginning. and that
the Morning Ners. SO far from selling
out. will I've soon enlarged and made
plethoric with an infusion of new capi-
tai from the Golfers of Mr.. III. NJ Flag
Ter, +. III. OTvis, of the Windsor, George
Hughes. j. NJ. Kreamer and fothers, and
will continue in the field till the last ex
piring gun is heard. However all this
may be. your correspondent knoweth
not as yet, and can only say To any and
all competitors that the progressive
enterprising. militant PALATKA DAILY
NEWS has come To stay and means busi-
ness, strictly business. 1t does not deal
in seIf-praise and gush about itself. but
sincerely hopes TO see the vigor of the
war come up to the high sounding
phrase of the manifestoes" of its
esteemed contemporaries. CAM l..